John Fox

John Fox, a Harvard PhD in anthropology, has excavated ancient ball courts in Central America, traced Marco Polo’s route across China, and biked Africa’s Rift Valley in search of human origins. He has worked as an academic, and, more recently, as a co-leader of the Quest Channel Expeditions, a pioneering adventure learning program that took him and an online audience of a million young people on expeditions across six continents to explore the world’s greatest scientific and historic mysteries. A recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, he has written about his many travels and adventures for Smithsonian, Outside, Salon, CNN.com among other publications. He has also appeared on Good Morning America (from the top of a pyramid!), BBC’s The World, and contributes regular commentaries on sports and culture to Vermont Public Radio.